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The more than 130,000 of the Russian Model sold to the Tsar’s government established S&W as an international manufacturer and was the company’s first major government contract. The Model 3 American was a preferred handgun of frontiersmen and Western lawmen during the 1870s and ’80s, with more than 120,000 sold–making it an equal candidate with the Colt Peacemaker SAA for the title of “Gun That Won The West.” (Only 30,063 SAAs were bought by the . government between 1873 and 1891, and only 150,683 total in .45 caliber were manufactured up to 1940.) The .45 Schofield version of the Model 3 is probably the most famous. The . Cavalry purchased 7000, and historians still argue that had Custer’s men been armed with quick-reload Schofields (and lever-action Winchesters) instead of the slow-punchout Colts (and single-shot falling-block Springfields) at least some would have survived the field of the Little Bighorn in 1876. Later, -44 and .38-44 chambering versions of the Model 3 Target, introduced in 1887, were the first revolvers to have adjustable sights.

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The whale carcass still lies in the water. Queequeg mounts it, tied to Ishmael's belt by a monkey-rope as if they were Siamese twins . Stubb and Flask kill a right whale whose head is fastened to a yardarm opposite the sperm whale's head. Ishmael compares the two heads in a philosophical way: the right whale is Lockean , stoic, and the sperm whale as Kantean , platonic . Tashtego cuts into the head of the sperm whale and retrieves buckets of oil. He falls into the head, and the head falls off the yardarm into the sea. Queequeg dives after him and frees his mate with his sword.

Cartridge length was the next consideration. That involved three concerns: to provide sufficient case capacity for a power/energy level head-and-shoulders greater than anything else existing, to make it long enough that no foolish experimenter could take any existing revolver of weaker construction and rechamber it to fire the new cartridge, and to ensure that if any other double-action revolver maker did decide it wanted to market a gun chambered for the new .500 S&W Magnum cartridge, it would also have to develop and manufacture its own entirely new frame size as well. (Business is
business, after all.)

His business reporting also includes Dot Con , about the internet bubble; Heat about how business leaders have reacted to calls for carbon reduction in the face of climate change; The Madoff Affair (2009), an investigation into the world’s largest Ponzi scheme; College Inc. (2010) and Educating Sergeant Pantzke (2011), two examinations of for-profit education that significantly influenced debate on Capitol Hill and at the Department of Veteran Affairs; The Retirement Gamble (2013), about the 401(k) industry and America’s impending retirement crisis; and To Catch a Trader (2014), a film about Steven A. Cohen and insider trading.

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Crawford, meanwhile, revealed that it was Hewitt’s affable personality that played a major part in the then Sheffield United keeper’s decision to make his loan switch to Bootham Crescent a permanent move.

Dick Metcalf and historian Roy Jinks review the evolution of the Smith & Wesson compact revolver from the Model 1… more »